DETROIT (myFOXDetroit.com) – It has been a violent two weeks in Detroit. There have been 32 murders in just 15 days, and that doesn’t include non-fatal shootings.

“These are not just people that are dying. These are husbands and fathers and sons and uncles and brothers and good people,” said Angela Nelson.

Her husband, a father of five, was one of them. Balloons float in front of the house where David Nelson was visiting on Sheridan Street in Detroit two weeks ago just down the street from where he grew up. Police say a fight broke out between a couple. A man went to shoot his girlfriend, but Nelson pushed her out of the way and took the bullet himself.

Nelson lived through the war in Iraq and even earned a Purple Heart by saving his crew from a roadside bomb, but he couldn’t survive the streets of Detroit.

“Even if the bullets didn’t hit my husband, he was not justified at all. I mean, I don’t know who people think they are to take the life of somebody else,” Angela Nelson said.

David Nelson was one of the 32 people killed in Detroit over the last 15 days. It’s the largest spike in homicides in as many days in the city’s history.

To date, 277 people have been murdered in Detroit compared 259 at this same time last year.

“It’s sad. It makes you scared to go outside. It makes you intimidated by everything,” Nelson remarked.

The head of homicide, Lieutenant Dwayne Blackmon, said very few cases are random. Many of the murders are fueled by anger. The new, 12-hour police patrol shifts may help by providing more of a police presence to stop the violence from escalating, but he said nothing will really change until people in Detroit stop solving their problems with gun violence.

We’re learned there were around 140 shootings during that same 15 day time period.

Nelson, who struggles every day knowing her children will grow up without a father, does feel grateful about one thing. Unlike so many out there, her husband’s murder was solved.

“It does make you feel better that the guy’s not out there, but it definitely doesn’t make it any better,” she said.

7 Responses to “32 people murdered over 15 day period in Detroit”

I’m sure Detroit’s crime and murder problem has absolutely nuttin’ to do wit race but it’s poverty that lays at the root of the problem. Maybe it could be that they have a democrap mayor or that the city is full of democraps, it could be anything but race related.

Blacks, in general, seem to be genetically predisposed to an internal lack of self-control. Yes, blacks may not be as intelligent as whites, on the average, but neither are mentally retarded folks. How much crime is committed by the mentally handicapped? Some, to be sure, but not nearly as much as the amount committed by blacks. It’s this lack of self-control that explains why blacks aren’t able to cope with the modern world, and why they’re more prone to resort to violence when things don’t go the way they’d like.

Stories like these give tons of credence to repatriation, or at the very least to the common sense housing system that was banned by the Supreme Court in 1948, and the entire social system that was banned by the totalitarian policies of the 1960s.

Meanwhile, liberals are sneering at Mississippi for having the lowest average median income of all the states in the union (Mississippi is at $36,000. No.1 is Maryland with $74,000). They’re blaming those “trailer trash white crackers” who “smoke too much” and are “plagued by obesity.” They claim that “religion” (IE, Christianity) and conservatism are holding Mississippi back, and that it’s no coincidence that the poorest state is the most conservative state. Then they turn around and praise states like Vermont for being so much more advanced then Mississippi. They are impervious to the fact that Vermont is over 90% white, whereas Mississippi is less then 60% white and has a crap ton of blacks compared to those successful, homogeneously white states in the Northeast.

Dream, I live in MS. I just tell people we’re first in poverty or illiteracy because we’re first in blacks. Liberals can’t stand it because they suddenly realize it’s true. Another very strong, undeniable correlation is the one between desegregation and the huge increases in crime and the miserable schools. In the 50’s nobody locked their doors. By the 80’s, everybody locked their doors. For the first time in history. Amazing, and obvious.

Mo town or bloody BRO town.I was stationed outside of Detroit at Selfridge AFB in 1949. Detroit had a lot of fun SAFE places and things to do then.Hand over the city to a bruddah and what would we whiteys expect? From DC , Philly , Camden etc all are basket cases.

Yeah, I’m sure as well ‘race has nothing to do with the fact’ Detroit, Harlem, Inglewood, Comptom, Five Points in Denver, Toledo Ohio and countless other crime-stricken, corrupt cities are the way are. Must be “republicans fault” or “Liberalism” that made those cities so bad over the years. Seriously, when are both the white conservative movement and the liberal whites going to deal with reality? The conservatives are playing the race card game the same way the liberals have been. Neither party wants to hold blacks accountable and admit there are differences between blacks and whites that aren’t the fault of whites and that no amount of white guilt, money or feel-good programs will change. Do I get joy pointing this out? No. I think it’s sad black communities can’t create nice, clean, low-crime areas like whites can. I think it’s a shame that Africa, despite all her beauty and natural resources, can’t make her continent look like Germany or Sweden or Norway or Switzerland, etc.

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